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10 Tips For Holiday Let Success · Host Planet: Airbnb, Holiday Let, and Vacation Rental Insights

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Welcome to Holiday Let's Insider, the podcast that takes
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you behind the scenes of the holiday letting industry.
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Brought to you by Host Planet and Sykes Holiday Cottages, the
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show is packed with expert insights, real world strategies,
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and actionable advice to help you succeed as a holiday let's
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host. I'm James Farley, the founder of
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Host Planet, and in each episode, we'll dive into key
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topics like property management, guest experience and revenue
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growth, and we'll be joined by industry experts who know what
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it takes to thrive in this sector.
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In today's episode, Natalie Johnson will be sharing 10
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things that every owner needs to know.
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Hello and welcome to the second episode.
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Of Holiday Let Insider. Today's special guest is Natalie
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Johnson, a holiday let owner and manager, plus a consultant with
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Sykes Holiday Cottages. How's it going, Natalie?
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Very well. Thanks, James.
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How are you? Yeah, really good.
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Thanks. Excited for this episode.
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Let's get straight in. You've got 10 need to know facts
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for. All holiday let owners so take
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it away. With fact #1.
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Yeah. So fact number one is don't
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underestimate the amount of money that you'll need to spend
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on your property. I think sometimes as a new owner
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you look at a property and think I'll just give it a coat of
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paint and everything will be fine.
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But you know, there's there's a lot to do to get Holiday Cottage
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ready and it's not just a case of furnishing it.
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You need to think about all sorts of things like your
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interior design, what the customer will want.
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So just have a real look and and calculate what you'll need to
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spend on the property before you buy it.
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Yeah, it's a great point. I mean, it's very different
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maybe to buy, to let investment where it might be a case of
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having an unfurnished property. You give it a lick of paint, you
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get maybe a few essentials that you need with a holiday let.
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There's a lot you need to buy and a lot that you need to think
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of. And one thing that we talk about
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a lot on the podcast is kind of staying in the property yourself
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to make sure that everything is there that that you would
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expect. I mean, how important do you
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think that is? It's definitely important as an
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owner when you finished a property, your first thought is
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let's get some money in. But it's definitely a good idea.
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I think if you, if you live in it yourself, you can just simple
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things like have I got something missing in the cupboard?
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You know, you want to cook and you've not got your garlic
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crusher, for example. So I think that's a really good
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idea and it just helps you get those final touches finished,
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really. And when it comes to amenities
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as well and making sure that you're providing everything for
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your guest experience, how important is it to?
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Have that ideal guest. In mind like depending on like
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the location of your property and then buying the right
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amenities for that guest. So I think you've got to think
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about things from every perspective.
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So people often say to me, oh, I'm doing my holiday cottage and
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I'm trying to appeal to cyclists, for example.
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But cyclists are a really small percentage of the population
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that go on holiday. So you do need to think about
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your guests, but essentially your guests could be anyone and
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everyone. So one thing I always tell my
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owners when I go and visit them as a property consultant is you
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should be trying to appeal to as many people as possible.
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So you've got young couples, old couples, you've got people
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working in the area, you've got people visiting families.
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So it's not just your typical holiday maker as as you would
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think of it. So you're trying to appeal to as
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wide an audience as possible because obviously the more
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people you attract, the more income you get for your holiday
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cottage. I was having a chat with a few
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industry people last week as well and we were talking about
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if we set up a holiday rental tomorrow in terms of the
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interior design and what we provide, we'd probably like to
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theme it according to like a group of people.
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You don't obviously don't want it to be too narrow, but how
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important is it to to theme a holiday property and kind of
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make sure that everything looks consistent from a design point
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of view? Yeah, so I have mixed feelings
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about themes. So sometimes people go totally
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to town on a theme and it's a little bit too much.
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So for example, if you buy the seaside, people love to give it
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a seaside theme, but you can get carried away with that.
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And you've got to be careful that it doesn't become too
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Disney like for example, but having a a theme from the area
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or some link to the area is a good idea.
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So for example, one of my cottages is an old post office.
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So I have actually got postage stamp cushions and then in in my
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picture frames, very simple picture frames.
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But I've printed off pictures of old post boxes.
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So just to link it to the fact that it was an old post office,
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but you don't want to go too hard on the post office because
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then you're only appealing to one kind of person.
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And like we said, you want to try and appeal to as many people
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as possible. So subtle, subtle themes I think
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are a good idea. Makes a lot of sense.
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OK then. So let's get on to tip #2.
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Yeah, so tip #2 look at things from all perspectives.
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So we've already sort of spoken about the fact that we're trying
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to appeal to as many people as possible, but think about what
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you'd like to put in that property.
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So you touched before on interior design and themes.
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Interior design is a really important aspect of holiday
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cottages. So unlike a long term let's
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where you simply furnish it as cheaply as possible and get your
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tenants in, there's a lot of competition out there for
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holiday let's. So the emphasis is on quality
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and it's on putting things in there that are fairly neutral.
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So you want to put your own personality in, but you don't
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want it to be personalized to yourself, if that makes sense.
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So you may absolutely love a red gloss kitchen and a Salvador
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Dali painting, but the majority of people are not going to like
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that. So what you're doing is you're
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taking every person and if they walked into a room, you're
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looking for it to be fresh, inviting, look good on the
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photographs and really neutral. Not not without some personal
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touches, but nothing that is too personal to you.
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So it's not to be looking like your own house, it's to be
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looking like a place that you look at that picture and think,
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yes, I would like to stay there. And how important is it to set
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up a rental so that you can take those great photos and also from
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a guest experience as well, having a place which is quite
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Instagrammable because if they come along and take a few photos
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and share them, you want other people to see it and think I
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want to stay there. Absolutely.
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Instagram is massive, obviously these days and you know, a lot
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of the owners we go and see are people of different ages,
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different backgrounds. But ultimately the basic rule is
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you are trying to take nice pictures.
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The pictures are the things that are going to sell that property
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to somebody looking at that listing.
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So propping it in the sense that you can have, you know, a nice
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bunch of flowers on the table. You have a little book in the
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corner. So to make it look inviting, but
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you're not propping it with personal family photos or
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anything that make it look like someone's home, it should be
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looking like a space that somebody walks into and they
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think, wow, this is mine for a week.
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Makes a lot of sense. OK, then tip #3.
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So don't cook corners. So a lot of my owners when I go
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and see them, they're really excited and they're like, I've,
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I've done everything and bought everything from a charity shop
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and I've made it look amazing. I'm not saying you can't pick up
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any bits from vintage, vintage stores and things like that, but
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as a general rule, you want to be putting quality in things
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that last is false economy to just throw a few bits in and
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think that that's going to be OK.
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So make it spend as much as is applicable for that particular
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type of property. So it's relative to the type of
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property that you're doing. So if we're looking at a little
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terraced cottage in a village, you know, we're not looking to
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put Vilro and Bosch bathrooms in necessarily, but we're looking
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to put something in that is of a very good standard that is going
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to last. So with my holiday cottages, I'm
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putting things in then I'm hoping going to last for the
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next 10 years. And to be fair, I mean my my
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oldest holiday cottage is 12 years renovated now and the only
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things I've really replaced are cushions, maybe the odd bedding
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and the odd towel, but everything else still looks good
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and relevant today. So you don't want anything
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that's too fashionable that's going to go out of fashion
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either. Yeah, buy things to last,
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definitely. My mum always says buy cheap,
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buy twice and that is really applicable to, to holiday let
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properties because you're going to have people using it all the
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time. You, you are going to come up,
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come up against wear and tear. So yeah, you know, make, make
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that investment at the start. All right then, Natalie tip #4.
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So I say tip #4 you're making a lot of money from your holiday
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cottages, but you want to watch obviously what you're spending,
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so whatever you do is coming off your profits.
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So things like welcome hampers are a good idea.
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So as part of your meeting and greeting, you would leave a a
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welcome pack for somebody. But it can be a fairly basic
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welcome pack. So my welcome packs don't
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actually cost me any more than 3 lbs, believe it or not.
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So some owners go to town, they're leaving bread, bacon,
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eggs, all of that. You've got to think about the
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fact that everyone is staying there.
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So you have some people that are vegetarian.
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You have some people that have religious beliefs and don't eat
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certain foods you So what you're trying to do is you're trying to
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leave something to welcome them, but not not necessarily a full
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hamper with a mealing. So something that says welcome
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to my cottage. I've made you feel welcome.
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You can have something to drink, a bite to eat and then you're
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settling in. So it's all about first
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impressions. So the welcome pack is part of
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those first impressions, but then also meeting and greeting
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if you can. If you can't meet and greet, I
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just call it greeting. So some of my cottages are not
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near my house. So I then drop that customer a
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message. It might be a text, it might be
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an e-mail, it may be a phone call.
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But just to introduce myself as the owner, to let them know that
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I'm here for them if they need anything and to let them know
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that I hope they have a nice holiday and that small
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interaction which may only take 5 minutes goes a long way.
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Then to that customer leaving you a nice review for example.
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And in most of my reviews I get owner was lovely and very
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accommodating which is really nice.
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But that's all only come from a 5 minute interaction and a
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little welcome pack when they arrive so.
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But it's worth doing. I think that's a really good
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tip. Yeah.
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I mean, the personal connection is so important and you'll
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you'll notice a big difference if you have the personal
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connection. And then maybe you run a more
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hands off rental, which is all automated and it's all done like
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via messaging apps and all this kind of thing.
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So yeah, actually seeing the person or just like talking to
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the person can make a huge difference.
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And it it makes. The guest feel looked.
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After right and that that you care about their their
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experience. Yeah.
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And I think that the properties that do best as holiday cottages
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are the ones where owners really care about their property.
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So even if you're not physically cleaning that property yourself,
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the best ones are where the owner has got a massive input
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into that property. So they're constantly checking,
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they're doing quality checks, they're making sure that
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everything looks fresh for that customer to come.
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And the ones that really understand that it's about
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providing a service to that person and if that person's had
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a really good experience, although they might not come
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again, somebody else is going to book again from them saying I
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stayed in a wonderful holiday cottage, the owner was lovely,
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we had a really great experience.
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So that's important. It is hospitality, that's for
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sure. OK then, Natalie.
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Tip #5. South tip #5 A lot of people
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don't know, but obviously when you've got a holiday cottage
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that is a business rather than a residential property.
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So in order for it to qualify as a business, once you've opened
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your property up for 140 nights and you've got at least 70 days
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booking, that then turns into a holiday.
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Let's so you're paying council tax whilst it's a normal
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residential property. Once it hits that holiday like
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criteria, it then goes on to business rates, which is cheaper
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and in some cases it's free. So it's well worth doing and
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obviously you're saving yourself some money as well there.
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So that's a little a little tip when it gets up and and running.
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Yeah, 100%. You know, if you're, if you're
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setting up a holiday let, I would advise you get in touch
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with the local council ASAP because sometimes these things
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take a bit of time to get switched over.
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I've had experience of that. So you tell them that you're
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running it as a holiday let, they will ask for proof.
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So you might send booking details, maybe like an Airbnb
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screen Grab or something from a direct booking website if you
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have that. And then of course you'll have
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to prove the amount of days that that it's available.
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But yes, as soon as you're set up, get on to the local council
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and yeah, yeah, don't, don't be paying council tax all the time
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because it'll be a lot more expensive.
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All right, then I think we've done 5.
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So we're on to tip #6 Natalie. Yeah.
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So tip number six is learn to trust.
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So I think the most difficult thing I found as a holiday like
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owner was I've done this beautiful property, I've spent a
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lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of effort.
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It looks gorgeous and my first guest is coming in and you're
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thinking this is my baby and I've got a stranger coming in to
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sustain my property. But I think you need to learn to
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trust. So each time you take a booking
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from somebody, you're actually trusting that person to come in.
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But in my experience, a lot of the reviews I get are thanking
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me for allowing them to stay in my home.
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And people do treat it with respect.
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And I think it's a two way thing.
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If you trust a two way trust relationship between the person
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coming into your cottage and you as an owner, I think is the best
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way to to deal with things. Sometimes when owners put too
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many rules in place or this is what you cannot do, I prefer to
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tell people what they can do and how they should enjoy the space.
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And I find that that people are really respectful if you allow
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them to come in on with that in mind.
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Very much so. I mean, in this game, you.
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Are going to get. The odd bad guest, it does
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happen of course, people have got nightmares to share, but I
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would say 99% of the time people are lovely and they treat
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everything with respect and and a brilliant guest.
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So, so yeah, most of the time it's it's going to be a really
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good and positive experience. I think we're on to tip #7 now,
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Natalie. OK, so something I, I have
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benefited from during my time with Sykes is they, they partner
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up with a company called Zeal. And I think one of the, the
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things even if you're good at at running business, if you've
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never done holiday letting before, even if you have an
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accountant, they're often not specialist accountants.
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So I I dealt with Zeal and Rodri Taylor who was amazing and he
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made the process really simple. So I'd actually been overpaying
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tax in a number of areas and fortunately by going through the
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process, they found me quite a substantial amount actually that
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was able to then contribute to future tax savings.
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So I would recommend going with a specialist company like that
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and particularly if you've been up and running for a while,
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because there is money that you can get back.
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And obviously we spend a lot of time paying out money and taxes
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and all sorts of things. It's nice to actually be able to
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get some of that back. So that was a, a, a big thing
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I'd recommend to people. And often people don't don't
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know that's even something that that you can do.
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So next tip. Yeah, 100% says yeah, Zeal tax
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our capital allowances specialist, the rules on
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furnished holiday let's have obviously changed very recently.
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But if you've been up and running for a while, like
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Natalie says, it's really important to get in touch with
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Zeal because they might be able to save you a lot of money in
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tax. And we'll put a link to them in
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the show notes for this. Zeal also partners of ours as
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well, very valued partners and we've done done lots of work
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with them, including including e-books and all sorts of other
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things. All right then, so 7 tips down.
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What's #8 Natalie. Celebrate is advertised with a
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good agency, so like sites, my cottages are listed with sites.
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Ultimately, you can be as experienced as you like as an
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owner, but you are never going to get the exposure for your
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cottage, whatever, whatever platform you try and use to
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advertise yourself. And I think you've got to be
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realistic that these days there's a lot of competition out
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there and it's really important that your cottage gets that
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exposure. You can have the nicest cottage
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in the world, but if no one's seeing it, you simply won't get
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the booking levels. So that would be my biggest tip,
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no matter how competent you are, no matter how good you are.
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I like to think I'm fairly competent, but at the end of the
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day, I'm not going to throw any marketing spend towards my
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cottages. I can't compete with the
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marketing spend that that can be spent by a company like Sykes.
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So for me, you want the volume of bookings, you want the annual
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return and you want the bookings when things become more
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challenging. So in the second week of
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January, nobody's really thinking of going away to a
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holiday cottage. It's a little bit easier in the
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summer, but you want the all year round bookings in order to
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generate that annual income. And obviously as costs go up,
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you know, mortgage interest rates are going up, heating
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costs are going up, water's going up, just about
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everything's going up. You need to make sure that.
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You've got a backing of a of a really good agency behind you.
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And that's the big advantage of working with a big property
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management company like Sykes. It's that exposure, isn't it?
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They're going to get you on so many different platforms.
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And the more eyeballs that see your rental, the more
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opportunities that you've got to get booked.
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So yeah, very, very simple and and great tip.
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OK, then I think that's number nine.
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We've got on to Natalie, so. My other tip is managed
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services, so whether you are going to clean your holiday
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cottage yourself, whether you intend to do part of it and then
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get help with the other part, you need a really good process
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in place. So get yourself a really good
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cleaner. That's my tip.
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And think about how you're going to do things like laundry.
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A lot of owners embark on on their holiday cottage thinking
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they're going to do everything. But you have to be realistic.
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So if you work full time and you need to change your cottage
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over, that's not going to happen whilst you're sat at work.
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So you have to be realistic about what you can take on, what
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you can't take on. And then you want somebody
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competent, competent that you trust to be able to get your
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holiday cottage ready for you. That's one of the hardest things
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I've found to get a really good cleaner in place and to get the
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processors in place. For me personally, I have a
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cleaner on all of my cottages now because I think that my time
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is better spent on the finishing touches.
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So I like to do things like my hamper.
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I like the towels to look a certain way.
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I even like the toilet roll to look a certain way.
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But I think if you, if you are shipping the whole process out,
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just take pictures of how you'd like everything to look.
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Leave that in a guide book for the cleaner.
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And then if you are getting different cleaners each time, at
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least they can refer to that and don't be frightened to tell the
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cleaner if they haven't done something right.
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You know, a lot of my owners tell me they go so behind the
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cleaner once they've left and they start cleaning.
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But if you don't tell the person that you wanted it a different
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way, they're never going to know.
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So that's a really important relationship to have a really
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direct and honest relationship with your cleaner.
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The two main things that the customers complain about in my
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experience is the cottage was not clean or I'm cold.
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So if you can get those two things right, you will be a
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successful holiday cottage owner.
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Good cleaners. Are like gold dust what you said
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there about kind of the training you clean.
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I think it's really important to set expectations from the start,
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especially if you're working with a cleaner who maybe might
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be used to domestic cleans rather than holiday rental
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cleans, because it is completely different and it's just how
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important is. It to kind of.
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Like set the foundations from the start so that the cleaner
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like really understands this is hospitality.
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It's not just like cleaning somebody's house where a few
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things you kind of. Can let them.
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Slide a bit, yeah. I I always say to my cleaners,
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particularly if they're used to cleaning residential properties
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like you say, I always say to them, this needs to look like
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nobody has ever lived in it. So if they're cleaning your
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house and they leave their dusting cloth on the side when
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they leave, that's no big deal. Whereas if that happens in a
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holiday letter, that is enough to generate a complaint.
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So I always say to them, you need to be able to eat your
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dinner off the floor once you've left.
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Everything needs to be just so. And if it isn't, I honestly, I
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just say to them from the beginning, I'm very direct.
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I'd rather tell you than be unhappy with the service and
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then suddenly I'm asking you not to clean for me anymore.
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I'd really rather get that relationship established from
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the start. And I think they appreciate
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that. And there's nothing wrong with
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saying, you know, you fold your towels this way, but I'd
24:01
actually rather have them like this because they're offering
24:04
you a service. You know, more often than not I,
24:08
I get owners who say to me, well, my cleaner can't clean on
24:12
a Thursday. And I say to them, but it's your
24:15
business and they're offering you a service.
24:18
So you need to get a cleaner that is giving you the service
24:22
that you need in order to maximize your income.
24:26
And in this day and age, if that means being available seven days
24:29
a week, then you need a company or a cleaner that is able to
24:33
offer you that service. Yeah, flexibility is, is so
24:37
important and and it is a business and that's that's the
24:40
key. And I think especially with
24:41
cleaners, they need to understand that it's a business
24:44
and be committed and definitely understand that that hospitality
24:48
viewpoint as well. OK then.
24:51
So we've raced through 9, What's the 10th?
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And final tip, Natalie? So final tip actually.
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You just touched on it is that it is a business.
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So a lot of owners they've, you know, they've got their holiday
25:03
courses, they've fallen in love with their, it's lovely.
25:06
They've spent a lot of money decorating it, getting it ready.
25:09
And then they talk to me about, I'm going to do this, I'm going
25:13
to put this in, I'm going to buy this.
25:15
So think about what adds value to your holiday cottage.
25:19
So at the end of the day, you can provide somebody with a
25:24
hamper with 50 lbs in that hamper, or you can be savvy and
25:30
spend 3 to 5 lbs and actually produce the same effect.
25:35
So ultimately, everything you spend on that cottage is coming
25:40
off your profits. And people do holiday cottages
25:43
for different reasons, but at the end of the day, you're doing
25:46
it to produce some form of income.
25:49
Even if you're using the cottage yourself sometimes if you're
25:52
bothering to put it on as a holiday layer, it is to produce
25:56
an income at the end of the day. So think about where you spend
26:00
the money, spending it in the right places for the right
26:03
reasons and being consistent with what you do.
26:08
So if you leave a gift for somebody and they then come back
26:14
in 12 months time, you need to remember that you've left that
26:18
gift for that person. So I think just being really
26:22
careful about where you spend the money, you're not being
26:26
tight because obviously you're there to provide a service and
26:31
you're offering something enjoyable to that person.
26:33
And more often than not, this is their main holiday.
26:36
It's a very considered purchase. People that that are booking
26:39
with sites, it's a considered purchase, often their main
26:41
holiday. They've saved a lot of money to
26:44
come on this holiday and you want to make the experience
26:46
good, but not forgetting that the reason you're doing it is
26:51
because you're running a business and a successful
26:54
business means making good profits.
26:58
It's, it's one of the easiest ways to, to make money in my
27:01
opinion, running a holiday cottage.
27:03
But the key thing, if you take anything away from this, it's
27:06
setting up your holiday cottage right in the 1st place.
27:10
And if you've got that right, with the right processes in
27:13
place, it will run fairly smoothly for you 100.
27:17
Percent, Yeah, Getting it right from Day 1 is really, really
27:20
important. Natalie, thank.
27:22
You so much for. Sharing those 10 tips and for
27:25
joining us on holiday, Let Insider you're more than.
27:28
Welcome. Thank you, great to chat.
27:30
To Natalie Johnson there from Sykes Holiday Cottages, I hope
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you found that top ten useful in your holiday letting journey.
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